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Original Article: Clinical

Outcome and prognosis of anaplastic large cell lymphoma in children: a report from the Taiwan Pediatric Oncology Group

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Pages 1942-1949 | Received 05 Jun 2018, Accepted 05 Dec 2018, Published online: 15 Jan 2019

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